New European 100m record 9.84

I hope they don't import the Eugene starters to Tokyo!

retired OC coach wrote:

This meet is another one where the sprint blocks were not electronically monitored and did not record reaction times. Just the other week at an ATL meet where reaction times were also not checked in the 100 meters, a very famous sprinter caught a flyer out of the blocks. His false start was even hinted at by the ESPN announcer. But since the blocks were not connected and the recall starter must have been sleeping, the sprinter broke 10 flat for the first time this year.

Thanks, good info. A tenth-and-a-half PR out of nowhere from a 30-year-old seemed pretty unlikely, nevermind tied for second best in the world this year.

Lmao wow first time this dead he ran 9.9 in may, 9.9 in June twice. One at Jamaican trails. And last week. He’s ran 9.9 four times this season. Read a news paper

I stand corrected. He did run some 9.98s with favorable wind earlier. But if you watch the ATL meet at Murrieta HS you will see the flyer he got out of the blocks.

Another angle of the race including the start:

https://twitter.com/LaurentMeuwly/status/1417515360949993480

Seems like there is no way this is legit. 2nd place was 11.09.

Even assuming he had a good start of 0.12s, this person timed the race to 10.3s.

Even if it isn't ratified as a european record, I think having this in the history books at all would be a farce. If there's a way to retime this using the original FAT pictures they should, otherwise the meet directors should invalidate the race after the fact, like some marathons have done after later discovering the course was incorrect.

Still waiting on a response from the meet afaik.

It's a pretty clear false start under the .120 reaction time rule yes.

THOUGHTSLEADER wrote:

It's a pretty clear false start under the .120 reaction time rule yes.

Thought the rule was .100, not .120. Either way even if you grant him a perfect legal start there's no way this was a 9.84 race.

The screen time shows 10.3 when Alex crosses, and it was correct (11.09 -> 11.1, 11.60 -> 11.6) for the 2nd and 3rd place finishers. So going by that time it looks like a 10.3.

paris2024hawk wrote:

Timings seems suspicious though although he was a sub 20 and 10.08 runner, he had 10.38 and 20.64 season best in the 100m and the 200m just before than. His 100m time was from 2.5 weeks ago.I know this just happened but I'm surprised people weren't making a bigger deal of this European 100m record.

Seems just as suspicious as Bromell making a comeback this year.

good points...yeah this all makes sense

Bromell made a comeback last year, and it took him years to recover

habs wrote:

THOUGHTSLEADER wrote:

It's a pretty clear false start under the .120 reaction time rule yes.

Thought the rule was .100, not .120. Either way even if you grant him a perfect legal start there's no way this was a 9.84 race.

The screen time shows 10.3 when Alex crosses, and it was correct (11.09 -> 11.1, 11.60 -> 11.6) for the 2nd and 3rd place finishers. So going by that time it looks like a 10.3.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E6wJPjHVIAUu_Nv?format=jpg&name=900x900

How is his time still listed on the WorldAthletics toplist? His time is clearly not legit. Isn’t it a WA requirement for official electronic times that the race has a mechanism to record reaction time for the start?

Yeah nowhere near 9.84.

Blake’s time also rubbish. And others.

We will see what they do when they are all against each other in Tokyo, because order of finish is now maybe a more interesting measure.

it says "DT" on World Athletics next to these marks. What does that mean?

I believe DT is for Disputed Time

Sprint42 wrote:

Isn’t it a WA requirement for official electronic times that the race has a mechanism to record reaction time for the start?

No, only for records.

DEE90 wrote:

hill_runner wrote:

He's Swiss citizen as Katir is Spanish :DDD

...as you are a human being on planet Earth.

Doesn't matter what kind of leftist BS you think or say. It doesn't take away from the fact that he is not European and you'll find less than 1% of Europeans that are so brainwashed to think that he should be included as one.

The International Athletics Federation, World Athletics, on Wednesday removed from its lists the impressive 100m (9''84) and 200m (19''89) times reportedly achieved by Swiss sprinter Alex Wilson on Sunday near 'Atlanta.

World Athletics backed down, Alex Wilson fell into line. He is no longer the second best performer of the year in the world over 100 m with the 9''84 (+1.9 m / s) he would have achieved on Sunday during a small meeting, the Georgia Games, in Marietta, Georgia, very close to Atlanta. On Wednesday, the International Athletics Federation, which had recorded its last two performances in 100m and 200m (19''89, +1.8 m / s), withdrew them from its lists, pending a possible homologation. European Athletics assured that this procedure could take several weeks.

A first video of his 9''84 circulated on social networks on Sunday, a second has since appeared. The doubts about this time are far from being dispelled. The possible lack of a departure control system and the visual impression do not plead in Wilson's favor.

With 10''38 as the best time this season over 100m, Alex Wilson is 103rd ... European - and therefore

Source: L’équipe du vendredi 23 juillet 2021

With 10''38 as the best time this season over 100m, Alex Wilson is 103rd ... European - and therefore very far in the world records. Swiss media reported on Wilson's comments on Tuesday, who said he could forgo Tokyo in the 100m to focus on the 200m (playoffs Aug. 3). Where he holds, with 20''64 (-0.3 m / s) the 156th world performance of the season.

commie bstds wrote:

DEE90 wrote:

...as you are a human being on planet Earth.

Doesn't matter what kind of leftist BS you think or say. It doesn't take away from the fact that he is not European and you'll find less than 1% of Europeans that are so brainwashed to think that he should be included as one.

Idiot. Sports has nothing to do with ethnicity, blood, race or racial genetics. It's about representing the abstract construct/governmental entity called "countries" or sometimes "nations": those abstract lines on maps that we have to imagine exist geographically in real life. No one is under the impression that he has substantial, what can be referred to as, "European" genetics. Stop being so insecure and defensive. Grow up. Follow your own idea of your identity and culture, etc without worrying what other individuals or groups of individuals are doing.